Legion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The major unit of the Roman army consisting of 3,000 to 6,000 infantry troops and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
  • n. A large military unit trained for combat; an army.
  • n. A large number; a multitude. See Synonyms at multitude.
  • n. A national organization of former members of the armed forces.
  • adj. Constituting a large number; multitudinous: Her admirers were legion. His mistakes were legion.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Numerous; vast; very great in number; multitudinous.
  • n. The major unit or division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3000 to 6000 infantry soldiers and 100 to 200 cavalry troops.
  • n. A large military or semimilitary unit trained for combat; any military force; an army, regiment; an armed, organized and assembled militia.
  • n. A national organization or association of former servicemen, such as the American Legion, founded in 1919.
  • n. A large number of people; a multitude.
  • n. A great number.
  • n. A group of orders inferior to a class; in scientific classification, a term occasionally used to express an assemblage of objects intermediate between an order and a class.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different numbers at different periods, -- from about four thousand to about six thousand men, -- the cavalry being about one tenth.
  • n. A military force; an army; military bands.
  • n. A great number; a multitude.
  • n. A group of orders inferior to a class.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In Roman antiquity, a body of infantry not corresponding exactly to either the regiment or the army-corps of modern times, composed of different numbers of men at different periods, from 3,000 under the kings to over 6,000 under Marius, usually combined with a considerable proportion of cavalry.
  • n. In French history, one of numerous military bodies so called at different periods.
  • n. Any distinct military force or organization comparable to the Roman legion.
  • n. An extraordinary number; a great multitude.
  • n. In zoology, a large group or series of animals, of indeterminate taxonomic rank, but generally of high grade.
  • To enroll or form into a legion.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. archaic terms for army
  • n. a vast multitude
  • n. association of ex-servicemen
  • n. a large military unit
  • adj. amounting to a large indefinite number
  • Equivalent
    many   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    throng    multitude    concourse    association   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    army    multitude   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Norwegian    collegian    region   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    horde    regiment    cavalry    army    squadron    host    throng    swarm    cohort    squad